Monday, 3 February 2014

Sunday, February 2/2014

New set of reading. Well, not entirely as we're still doing a chapter aloud most days from Lillian Beckwith's Hebridean memoirs. But also reading Decline and Fall, the second volume of Chris Mullin's political diary. So much more modest than Alan Clark's, not that that would be difficult! And so much more concerned with how issues affected people other than himself. And the humour conscious. And as well as that Jeremy Paxman's The Political Animal, an entertaining view of what makes politicians tick by a man who has spent many year's interviewing them.

Have largely given up on TV, though we do watch some on the tablet. There are films in English with Greek subtitles, but disproportionately they're grade B action films. Tonight's film looks not bad but in this case the dialogue is not English but Italian.